#bandom rph

Part One: The Account Itself

If you’re doing a private line or 1x1, deciding whether or not your account is in character is entirely your prerogative. Some people like to write all of their ships on a single account, and others like to split it over different accounts. Luckily, the app lets you log into as many accounts as you want should you decide to go down that route.

If you’re doing a 1x1 mumu, you can make one account and start as many chats as you’d like with the same person so all the connections are separate. Just go to a chat with the person of your choosing, press the menu button in the top right corner, click “create new group” and follow the instructions. Here’s a neat little diagram.

If you’re in a group, you’re almost always going to be expected to have an account specifically dedicated to your character, and it should be made in character, as if your muse was the one who went onto gmail.com and signed up themself.

Figure A: On the left: my rp account, with my name and my mascot. On the right: one of my characters’ accounts, with her name and her faceclaim.

Part Two: Chats & Paras & Talking OOC

Remember when I said to throw out your gifs? That’s because you won’t be using them at all. Gif chats have been replaced by messages, which are pretty much the same thing. Whether your characters are talking face-to-face or they’re actually messaging each other is up to you and your partner, but it will go down the same.

Paras go kind of the same way. You and your partner decide that you’re going to para, and you do it right there in the chat.

OOC discussions happen, again, in that same chat. You usually use little slashes to denote that you’re going out of character.

Figure B: My character texting her husband updates on one of their dogs while he is out of town.

Figure C: On the left: me and Lila singing Escape OOC. On the right: the first two sentences of one of my para replies.

Part Three: Groups

As far as I know, bandom is the only type of tumblr roleplay that has adopted this way of writing, except for @angelsonfirehq (which is OC/Greek mythology.)

But in case you want to join bandom or AOF, or make your own group like this, here is how it generally goes:

You have your gmail, as we’ve already discussed, and it is in character.

You also have a blog, which is to be run as if it’s your character’s personal blog. Interact with other characters, send ask memes, post selfies, reblog things that relate to your character. Just try to keep it IC. This is your character’s blog. Here’s an example of one of mine!

Many groups also ask for a sideblog, This is a secret venting place for your character. Post their hidden thoughts, diary entries, things that want to scream at people but can’t, or reblog posts that apply to them that they wouldn’t want others to see. It’s for OOC eyes only, which means if you happen to stumble upon someone else’s, keep all that knowledge OOC. Using anything you see on one of those blogs is meta-gaming douchebaggery. Don’t. Games tend to use these for their gossip blogs if they have one. Here’s another example!